Sunday, May 29, 2016

Last week, local service provider Singtel invited a small group of bloggers including Red Dot Diva, for a special event held at Elements & Co Cafe. The night of simple fun and games was focused on providing the bloggers with a first-hand experience on their Singtel TV GO application, that allows one to tune into over 120 channels on the go!

Pic by Singtel

Cutie Joakim Gomez, 98.7 FM's radio producer and presenter for "The Bro Code", was the lovely (and lively!) host for that evening.

Red Dot Diva brought her Evil Twin along to the event, and the first thing they did was download the Singtel TV Go app on a smartphone to see what it looks like.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

As part of the May the Fourth celebration earlier this month, Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) - whose regional headquarters is at the Sandcrawler in Red Dot Island - hosted a special hour-long panel at the Sports Hub Library about the Oscar-nominated visual effects (VFX) featured in "The Force Awakens".

Red Dot Diva has attended a few Lucasfilm ILM panels about their VFX work in other movies before, but never for Star Wars, due to the fact that "The Force Awakens" is the first Star Wars movie released after 10 years. Being an avid Star Wars fan, she could not pass up the chance on learning more about the magic that happened behind the scenes.

The panel, moderated by Dominic Zou from 501st Legion SG, started off easily enough with an introduction of the four homegrown artists involved with the movie: Associate Production Manager - Pei'an Lau, Lead for Rotoscoping and Paint - JeanLe Koh, Lead for Texturing and Look Development - Elvin Siew and Animator - Zaini Jalani.

Why not relieve all that tension by taking part in Red Dot Island's very own Lip Sync Showdown?? Red Dot Diva thinks everyone needs more fun and laughter in their lives and it will help greatly in improving mental health.

Lip Sync Showdown is modelled after Spike TV's popular "Lip Sync Battle", which has seen the likes of a list of celebrities including Hayley Atwell, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Nick Carter & AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys and Eva Longoria, pitching against other with their mostly spot-on and hilarious impersonations of famous singers. The local event is organized by Elements & Co., who is partnering with Genetix Productions.